No, I don't want to stalk anyone. I visited NYU last Friday and a man named Michael Rojas (I think, its something like that) gave a presentation. He didn't say what his position was within the admissions department but he spoke with authority on what they want to see in applications. I want to cite his name and title in an e-mail request for a fee waiver. Any help would be appreciated, NYU-er's.

zeezoo wrote:yea apparently he is the biggest douche of all the 1L profs (Miller is a douche, but sort of comical so its fine)

Epstein is great, his methodology seems to be immersion via socratic method, and it is scary for sure, but he means well. He has a good attitude and seems to care about us learning his legal theory of torts by all means necessary. He hates on the negligence system incessantly. I have seen a pretty good sampling of douches so far this year, but Epstein is not one of them.

I think torts is probably the easiest class. If the sample problem that was given was indicative of the kind of stuff we'll encounter on the exam, I would expect a fair number of people to pickup 80-90% of available points on the it--contrast this to McKenzie's exam last year where the best paper only got 66% of the available points. Of course the fact that everything is curved suggests that studying for procedure might have a higher return.

underdawg wrote:how did everyone do in their shakedown of local businesses all in the name of public interest?

The shop owners were generally nice though we did get some flack for being from a law school rather than an authentically needy UG. All said, it was a pretty pointless exercise. We wasted 3 hours to procure at best $150 worth of merchandise--I would have preferred to donate $40 to the school out of pocket.

Email today said the admin is looking at a new curve to bring the school in line with its peers. In addition, they're considering adding A+ to the scale.

My thoughts: an upwards adjustment of the curve will provide a tiny advantage to those at the bottom of the class (I think a 3.0 looks better than a 2.9, even if its exactly the same WRT class rank), assuming we're looking at a uniform shift in the distribution. I think the addition of A+ to the scale, though it will no doubt have zero affect on me, will be a net positive for the school; judges will be able to better discern the stars in the top 5%.